Iraqi terrorists launch attacks with Google?

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Iraqi terrorists launch
attacks with Google?
U.S. troops suspect satellite images
used to zero in coalition base targets

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Posted: December 18, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern



? 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

It's been six months since Google launched Google Earth ? an Internet service providing satellite images of virtually the entire planet to anyone.

Now defense experts ? and some U.S. servicemen in Iraq ? believe terrorists are using the technology to coordinate attacks on coalition military bases.

Google Earth not only allows users to zoom in on almost any location in the world to give users a bird's-eye view, it even provides latitude and longitude coordinates for buildings.

Bill Sweetman, a technological warfare expert with Jane's, the military and intelligence specialist publisher, told the London Telegraph the images could enable terrorists in Iraq to pinpoint targets inside military bases.

"Information gleaned from Google Earth can be of use to these people," he said. "They can use overhead images to get co-ordinates for a mortar attack or for a suicide bomber to try to figure out where a building is in the base so they don't get lost on their way in."

Since its launch, coalition forces in Iraq have suspected that terrorists are using it, along with GPS (global positioning system) units to carry out attacks on their bases.

In an e-mail recently posted on the Internet, a U.S. Marine who has served in Iraq suggested the possibility.

"Bad guy technology: simple yet effective," he wrote. "They use GPS units for navigation and Google Earth for overhead views of our positions."

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